Porter Airlines, a small, short-haul Canadian airline, said on Wednesday it has signed an interline partnership agreement with Qatar Airways, Porter's first such venture. Porter's chief executive said it would seek more such deals.

Saudi Arabia has decided to let Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the largest Chinese commercial bank, open a branch in the country, a sign of growing economic ties between the world's top oil exporter and second-biggest oil consumer, local media said.

Will ask Iran to deliver the crude, cover insurance risk; Chinese, Indian buyers have also asked Iran to deliver; Korean deal almost reached, government source says; First cargo could arrive end September or early October; Asia's big-four buyers take over half of Iran's exports

Yemen has set the official selling price of its Masila crude for loading in October at a premium of $0.13 a barrel to dated Brent, down 39 cents from the previous month, its government said late on Monday.

Thomson Reuters said the blogging platform of the Reuters News website was compromised on Friday and a false posting purporting to carry an interview with a Syrian rebel leader was illegally posted on a Reuters' journalist's blog.